Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
To the Right Honorable The Lord Chancellor, George Herbert
My Lord, a Diamond to mee you sent,
And I to you a Blackmoore present.
Gifts speake the givers, for as those refractions,
Shining and sharpe, poynt out your rare perfections;
So by the other you may read in mee,
Whome Scholler's habite and obscurity
Hath soyl'd with blacke, the color of my state
Till your bright gift my darknes did abate:
Onely, my noble Lord, shutt not the doore
Agaynst this meane and humble blackamoore;
Perhaps some other subject I had tryed,
But that my inke was factious for that side.
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